Quote Originally Posted by Mar-Evayave View Post
I think it would be hard for anyone in the US to accurately say how it will work out, but your best bet would probably be to ask any EU friends you might have. They've been dealing with this exact situation ever since Codemasters returned control of the EU servers to Turbine.

As an example, I have a number of friends from the EU (as well as Asia, Australia, South America, etc). I don't really know what their latency is, but at the same time they seem able to play the game as well as I can. My guess would be that your connection strength won't take a huge hit unless you already have a slow internet connection (the way I do -- I get about 3 megs per second).
My main kin on Nimrodel has Aussies (usage not exclusive of others in the East Asia/West Pac area) and Europeans among the membership roster. Interestingly enough, I suspect my EU friends to get better NA pings from the move to NJ, though they'll likely have 100ms or so times (they're still more than 3000 miles away from NYC and, hmm, NYC is closer to SF and LA than Boston is, and that's still 2000 miles). My AU/NZ friends have 200ms and higher pings routinely. I'm not sure what the move to NJ will do for them. For instance, Boston, MA is about 1500 miles from me. I get upper 40s at best and 50s/60s millisecond ping times typically. NJ will be 300 miles closer, and since my current routing sends me through NYC, the NYC to Boston hop adds about 10 ms to my pings. So, I'm expecting 40s pings from the move.

I'm pretty sure there is a major trans-Atlantic cable that comes into NYC. Given that there will be this 300 mile shorter route and better connectivity to that backbone, I expect the EU folk who continue to play on NA servers will get at least 10ms shaved off their pings, and maybe more. South Americans likely enter the US in Miami. NYC is about 300 miles closer to Miami, so I expect them to get at least 10ms shaved off their pings, too.